{"id":30240,"date":"2016-11-12T02:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-traffic-officer-embu-county-govt-employee\/"},"modified":"2016-11-12T02:47:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T02:47:45","slug":"kenya-traffic-officer-embu-county-govt-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-traffic-officer-embu-county-govt-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Traffic officer, Embu county govt employee nabbed for soliciting bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A traffic police officer and an Embu county government revenue officer are being held at an Embu police station, after they were arrested by Ethics and anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officials while soliciting for bribe from motorists.}<\/p>\n<p>The police constable together with the county employee were part of a team of about five policemen who were manning a road block along the busy Embu- Nairobi highway.<\/p>\n<p>The EACC officials who were acting on a tip-off from motorists had laid a trap and had issued some motorists some treated money, thereby seizing the unsuspecting policeman as he received the money.<\/p>\n<p>They then pounced on the policeman together with the revenue collector.<\/p>\n<p>A motorist who witnessed the noon drama said the other police officers abandoned the road block and fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>They were however not taken to court as the Embu law courts was not sitting.<br \/>\nEmbu West OCPD Francis Sang confirmed the arrest, adding that EACC and the police department had been monitoring the road block following numerous complaints.<br \/>\nHe said they would also target matatu operators who give bribes.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sang, however did not confirm the amount of money found in possession of the two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>A police source at the traffic department said the two were found with treated money that had been issued to the motorists who had complained of being asked for bribes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16360 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/graftpix.jpg\" alt=\"A traffic police officer stands next to a barrier on the Kenyatta Avenue\/Kimathi Street junction in Nairobi on August 27, 2016. A traffic police officer is expected to appear in an Embu court after he was arrested for allegedly soliciting a bribe.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A traffic police officer and an Embu county government revenue officer are being held at an Embu police station, after they were arrested by Ethics and anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officials while soliciting for bribe from motorists.} The police constable together with the county employee were part of a team of about five policemen who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30240"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30240"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}